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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1907
Page
3
The note reports no markets received yesterday or the day before and none at present. It states markets and telegraphic reports are delayed until the strike ends and that telephone lines are overloaded making outside communication nearly impossible.
The Vienna advertises the citys widest selection of cookies with a broad range of flavors and bulk options. Shoppers can choose from assorted trays and single dozen packs at competitive prices.
Mrs. Clarencé VanSickle, guest of A. VanSickle for two weeks, departed last evening for Oskaloosa to visit Earl Lewis, then plans to return to her Lincoln Nebraska home.
Mrs. B. J. Johnston of Linton Mississippi reports a severely ill child recovered after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She says three doctors failed but the remedy brought swift improvement and a healthy child. Available from Cook & Sherman.
A Cincinnati Enquirer retells an ancient tale of Ahampsintius the king of Egypt who built a stone vault to guard wealth. Two sons, traps, a severed head, and a clever thief lead to the robber becoming the king’s son by pardon and marriage.
The Springfield Republican profiles Clovis Hughes a French journalist poet and duelist who spent a turbulent fifty five years in public life. He claimed a fatal French duel and faced suspension from the chamber of deputies for insulting remarks to the president. His wife fatally shot a public official over an insult and staged a theatrical defense with La Vegeance de Mme. Clovis Hughes.
A Southdown breeder in a London Mail interview defends using snail fattening for mutton. He claims flavor and tenderness rise with snail diets, citing continental snail cures for consumption and the proverb good snail year, good sheep year among shepherds.
The Chicago Tribune urges careful monitoring of a child s tendencies and discipline to curb vices. It advises withholding rewards for destructive behavior, sterntying cruelty, and teaching gentleness to girls and sisters while protecting pets and fostering a trusting parent child home environment.
Advice emphasizes outdoor exercise and regular routines with plain wholesome food. It warns against rich cakes and pickles, suggests sea salt baths, dawdling meals, and cautious milk diets for whooping cough, stressing continued feeding and dental hygiene to preserve strength and teeth.
Make baskets from pliable copper wire wrap with gauze. Tie violets ferns and geranium leaves into baskets and sink them in a cooled solution of one pound alum to a gallon water. When a light crystal covering forms remove and drip for twelve hours. The result is a beautiful parlor ornament that preserves the flowers.
The finger is dipped in hot water to soften the nail and ease bleeding. It should be wrapped in a bread and water poultice. Do not neglect a jammed finger as severe injury may require amputation or mortification of the bone. Jammed toes are treated the same way as fingers.
Cleanly instructive guide for pineapple prep. Remove top and bottom then quarter and core. Scrape pulp from shell with fork and spoon to yield a pulpy juicy mass and discard indigestible fibers left in the shell.
A safety note explains how to use a life buoy in trouble. Do not lift the buoy over your head. Instead grasp the nearest buoy with both hands and press down hard. The buoy on the far side will rise and topple, enabling you to be drawn to safety.
The method advises removing grease with spirits of turpentine, then soaking the article in water for ten minutes, rubbing with a painter's brush, and letting it dry. Finally rub again with a soft brush dipped in plaster of Paris for a finishing touch.
In a string of wry exchanges Freddy questions biblical flood logic, the curate asserts all living things drowned save Noahs ark. A master remark about liquor fades into a gardener quip, delivering dry humor and sly social satire.
In a dialogue from Pearson's Weekly a man laments owing Miss Weber a thousand pounds for breach of promise of marriage while his friend expresses joy stating he is now engaged to her. The two men exchange a warm handshake as the news settles in.
In a reflection on Paul's first epistle, the discussion turns to whether women should remain silent in church. The women urge speaking through husbands, the men defend doctrine, and Mrs. Bellamy Storer’s meddling stirs controversy as the Corinthian women increasingly question their husbands.
The cliff dwellers boast of origin of the modern apartment house. A ribald jester asks about the janitor. They answer by releasing a sacred radesnake on the ground floor to illustrate the old lesson that nothing is new under the sun.
Local notes report a license issued to William M Yoder and Edie Y er. Evelyn Lane of near West Ty visits uncle Oscar Brock. Mrs E Lindsay of Eldora IA sails Thursday night to visit L H Hall. Mrs Harry Stone and daughter Elizabeth of Centralia MO visit Oscar Brock. Mr and Mrs O T Smith return from Oska loosa after Chautauqua. May and Bessie Thielen leave for Peoria then Chicago to home.
Anadvertisement by Dr Shoop from Racine Wisconsin promotes Dr Shoop’s Restorative and a free book on dyspepsia heart kidneys and internal nerves. It claims internal nerve weakness causes stomach heart and kidney weakness and offers samples and a free book with purchase from J H Stewart.
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